Example Sentences
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Exploiting a series of portages linking Lake Michigan and local rivers, they paddled their canoes from Canada’s Atlantic shore to the Gulf of Mexico and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Superior National Forest officials had closed trails, campsites, portages and bodies of water in the area, to assist in the search.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
There was one industry that the new city would excel in, which did not require ships, portages, or much labor at all.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2017
Most portages are a few hundred yards, Paul said, but some are up to a mile long.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2016
Mr. Reed tells students they have to interview someone—a mother or father or grandparent—about their own portages, the moments in their lives when they’ve had to take a journey, literal or metaphorical.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
